Completions

[PurpleBooth]

Hey,

thinking about packaging my apps with scoop, currently I only provide the binary for windows and homebrew on linux and windows. Scoop looks like the nicest option for windows.

What's a good example to look at for setting up bash/pwsh/zsh/fish completions?

[niheaven]

Currently no Windows auto completions, scoop only extracts archive and add bin path.

[rashil2000]

You can add a note on how users can source the completion files themselves, but as such there's no centralised place for completion files.

[rashil2000]

Actually, I think it's trivially easy to add completion sources support to Scoop. We can track it here: #3247

We can create a folder ~\scoop\completions, and inside that, subfolders for bash, zsh, pwsh, fish etc. During installation, we can copy some specified files to this folder, and delete them during uninstallation.

[rashil2000]

In the JSON manifest, an object field can be added, something like this:

...
    "completions": {
        "fish": "path\\to\\fish\\file.fish",
        "bash": "path\\to\\bash\\file.sh",
        "pwsh": "path\\to\\pwsh\\file.ps1"
    }
...

[niheaven]

First add a completion likes:

"completions": "xxx.ps1"

I'm wondering where to put this file and if zsh/fish files are specified, how to use them or how to treat them in a PowerShell environment?

[rashil2000]

The sourcing part will have to be done manually. Users will have to add these lines to .bashrc/profile.ps1:

source ~/scoop/completions/bash/*.sh

Get-ChildItem "~/scoop/completions/*.ps1" | ForEach-Object { . $_ }